Creamy Chicken and Biscuits
Time for some lightened up comfort food with Creamy Chicken and Biscuits! Often, comfort foods get linked to the chillier seasons of the year. The …
Time for some lightened up comfort food with Creamy Chicken and Biscuits! Often, comfort foods get linked to the chillier seasons of the year. The …
Fluffy Sweet Cornbread. Could be a little controversial, since there seem to be two camps when it comes to cornbread… There are those who like …
Let’s mark the calendar because this is a first. It’s happening right here, right now….Pomegranate Valentine Mimosas are the very first “grown up” drink I’ve …
I love, love, love Valentine’s Day! Unlike New Year’s Eve where I’ve always felt like the world requires you to have someone to kiss at …
This Crazy Chocolate Olive Oil Cake recipe has stayed with me through all the stages of my life as an easy, go to chocolate cake. …
So I had this idea to make Jammy Thumbprint Scone Bites. They didn’t have a name at the time, but I, major scone lover, thought, …
I’ve been meaning to post these Herb Roasted Potatoes for a long time. Herb Roasted Potatoes are one of my go to “recipes.” They are …
How are you doing with those new year’s resolutions? For those of you who have resolved to eat a good healthy breakfast each day, here’s …
There are many different ways to define a “healthy” recipe. Maybe you’re all about low carb, or low fat, high protein or vegan or vegetarian. …
This has been a crazy month full of baking and blogging and winter concerts and holiday parties and baking cakes for a surprise birthday party …
I don’t know if you’ve noticed… but there’s been a lot of confectioner’s sugar action going on in my last couple of posts. First there …
Eggnog Kringla. A light, cakey Scandinavian cookie with a delicate eggnog flavor, topped with dusting of confectioner’s sugar and freshly grated nutmeg. It’s always so …
Is your holiday baking well underway? I love this time of year and my list of things I want to make is always longer than …
Are you a “fruit in bread” lover? You know, like cinnamon raisin bread? If not, please avert your eyes… Everyone else? Come in a little …
Fudge Topped Peanut Butter Cookie Tarts. A roll and cut peanut butter cookie is graced with a dark, fudgy ganache and then topped with salty …
I’m sliding one more breakfast idea your way before Thanksgiving. Pumpkin Buttermilk Biscuits. You know I love biscuits and scones. I’ve been dying to develop my …
I thought I’d do a quick round up of some recipe ideas for Thanksgiving Day. You might not have your menu set, or maybe you’re …
I always forget how much I love Belgian endive. Then I eat it and wonder why I don’t buy it more often. I love it’s …
Be honest. When you read the title, “Caramel Apple Pie Cheesecake Dip” you pictured a bowl of dip with some dippers on the side. You …
This is one of our favorite fall comfort food meals. Butternut Squash Macaroni Skillet with creamy fontina cheese and sage browned butter crumb topping. It’s …
So, I have a wonderful butternut squash recipe coming your way next… But, as much as I love butternut squash in recipes like this Roasted Butternut …
Halloween is Saturday! Yikes! I knew it was Saturday…but somehow, last Friday, I was thinking I still had two weeks. Yep, in my head, I …
Galette, crostata, galette, crostata… Tomato, tom-ah-toe? With my Blueberry Galette, I was channeling my French roots. I thought I’d give a nod to my Italian …
Flashback Friday is where I share some of our creative endeavors that happened before the blog. This one doesn’t flashback very far, but I know …
No time for dinner? Or, as a blogger, perhaps no time to take photos of any of the more savory items I’ve wanted to share …
In my merchant days, my team and I would spend many, many months developing product for our customers. First we would travel the world to …
First things first. This is not a cake. It might be cut into nice little squares, and look like a cute little snack cake, but …
You can thank my husband for these pancakes. Whole Wheat Butternut Squash Pancakes with Whipped Maple Butter. They were not in my plans, but apparently …
Well, that sure went fast! Today is the anniversary of the birth of The Merchant Baker. One year ago today, I very nervously pressed the …
I have so many scones I want to share with you… But since this isn’t a blog solely devoted to scones, I have to pace …
So, I’ve been working on these Whole Wheat Buttermilk Banana Nut Muffins since February. They didn’t start out as this exactly. I was just bent …
I had grand ideas for this ice cream. And I actually thought, through the entire process, that it was going to be a grand fail. …
Hey! Somebody baked me a birthday cake! Ummm, probably because I asked for it…and not in the, “Hey, do you want to bake me a …
That’s right. Summer Hummus. Because even though it’s the last week of August and the kids are getting ready to go back to school, I’m …
You’ve gotta love a good biscuit recipe. Because once you know how to make Fluffy Buttermilk Biscuits, you can make Cheddar Buttermilk Biscuits and Sticky Maple Bacon Biscuits. …
It has never occurred to me to make a White Zucchini Cake… I’d always made zucchini cake as a chocolate cake and reserved non-chocolate zucchini …
“You’re going to do a blog post on Fresh Lemonade???” asked my daughter. Yes. Yes I am. “But isn’t lemonade just sugar, water and lemon …
Hey! I made us some ice cream! This is an exciting day because I only make ice cream approximately….well….let’s say….yeah, once a year :) Just …
Do you want to know how to cook brown rice? You know, rice that’s not sticky, mushy or wet? Perfectly fluffy brown rice is easy …
I’ve got a fun little treat for you if you’re not in the “turn the oven on” mood…. Ice Box Raspberry Chocolate Chip Cheesecake! I …
It’s July, so I decided to make a pie. Actually, I made a Blueberry Galette. And I didn’t really make it because it’s July, but …
Our garden produced it’s first fruits while we were away last week. Two, to be exact. We came home to our first zucchini of the …
I posted this wonderful sauce last year when I first started this blog. The sauce is over the top amazing, but the photos never really captured how …
Hey there. Checking in to say I haven’t forgotten about you. What’s been going on here? Well….I was getting a couple of posts ready for …
You know how when you think you’ve “invented” something new…. And you even come up with a name, like One Bowl Brittle Bark, and pat …
I decided to try a twist on a favorite classic. Roasted Potato Salad with Avocado Lime Dressing. This dish was inspired by two things: our …
Strawberry Shortcake is easily one of my top five favorite desserts. Most of the strawberry shortcake I had as a kid came on top of one of those …
Today I’m sharing some of my favorite things from King Arthur Flour. I often link back to King Arthur ingredients in my recipes because I …